Margaret S. Gillerman, THE ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FERGUSON (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) — A group that has been collecting signatures for a recall of Mayor James Knowles...
Colin Campbell, BUSINESS INSIDER (Business Insider) — Presidential candidate and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) blasted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday over her...
I was just handed this photo of Joe Morrissey — by Joe Morrissey. #BreakTheInternet pic.twitter.com/5H89jyX5ZT — Joe St. George (@JoeStGeorge) May 14, 2015 Janell Ross,...
Special to the NNPA via OurWeekly Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (NNPA) — Senate Bill 629, a measure to correct an obsolete reference to the...
JOAN LOWY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats on Thursday demanded that Republicans provide more money for Amtrak so the railroad can tackle a $21...
KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Students in 11 states and the District of Columbia will spend less time next year taking tests based on...
(Slate) – No one will blame you if you can’t keep track of the Republican presidential field. It’s huge. If you count declared candidates, prospectives,...
(Politico) – For the first time in the decade and a half that Gallup has been tracking Americans’ ideologies, the percentage of those identifying their...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. public schools beefed up security measures with safety drills and parent notification systems in the years surrounding...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Whites are moving back to the American city that came to epitomize white flight, even as blacks continue to...
STACY A. ANDERSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The family of civil rights activist Rosa Parks viewed some of her personal memorabilia for the first time...
(Slate) – Not so long ago, federal prosecutors were simply terrified by the idea of what might happen if they ever brought criminal charges against...
JULIE PACE, AP White House Correspondent CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — During two days of campaigning this week in Iowa, Hillary Rodham Clinton didn’t make a...
JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — People in the nation’s capital no longer have to show a good reason to get...
(Bloomberg) – Six years after the recession ended, many U.S. states are hard pressed to balance budgets because of a sluggish recovery and their own...
JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — Four-year-old William Cole saw his father’s face and reached out to touch it during a jail visit....
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — President Barack Obama ended long-running federal transfers of some combat-style gear to local law enforcement on Monday in...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — A first-of-its-kind provision that prevents welfare recipients in Kansas from withdrawing more than $25 a day from an ATM might violate federal law,...
RYAN VAN VELZER, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Facing a $1 billion budget deficit, Arizona’s Republican-led Legislature has reduced the lifetime limit for welfare recipients to...
(Politico) – A question for Jeb Bush. And this one isn’t about his brother. It’s about his father. Now that we know whether Jeb would...
Nedra Pickler, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine months after police in riot gear dispelled racially charged protests, President Barack Obama is prohibiting the...
Niraj Chokshi, THE WASHINGTON POST JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (The Washington Post) — The Missouri legislature ended its session Friday night having passed virtually none of the reforms...
Hunter Schwarz, THE WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK (The Washington Post) — Hillary Clinton hasn’t always had the best relationship with Hollywood and celebrities; in 2008,...
David A. Lieb, ASSOCIATED PRESS JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri House Speaker John Diehl said Thursday that he is resigning from the Legislature after...
AUSTIN (Equal Justice Initiative) — Student leaders at the University of Texas in Austin are seeking to remove from their campus a statue of Confederate...